The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story Quotes

“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Originale - Fall 44: Die Bruce-Partington-Pläne

“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloudbank. The thief or the murderer could roam London on such a day as the tiger does the jungle, unseen until he pounces, and then evident only to his victim.
There have been numerous petty thefts.
This great and sombre stage is set for something more worthy than that. It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Originale - Fall 44: Die Bruce-Partington-Pläne

“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.
I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses and all the queen’s men cannot avail in this matter.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Die Originale - Fall 44: Die Bruce-Partington-Pläne